Chapter Two - by jugglequeen
Angela was looking forward to bringing her son back to Connecticut and giving him a position within The Bower Agency in New York. She just wanted to have him close again. Europe was too far away to her liking. She missed her only son. And she still was his boss after all! If she decided it was necessary for him to work in the company's headquarter in New York, she had the power to call him back. He had been away long enough. For five long years he had been living in Germany and was doing an amazing job in expanding the subsidiary. The Bower Agency had become one of the leading advertising firms in the country. Jonathan loved his job and had aquired some reputation. Headhunters were adressing him on a weekly basis, trying to lure him to work for one of their clients, but he had declined every single offer which had ever been issued - of course. He loved working for his mother's company. But Angela was afraid she might lose him one day, so it was time he came back, and in order to make it tempting enough for him, she had given him a nice promotion. As a kid, he had suffered long enough being the president's son, having to share his mother's attention with her agency. There was nothing wrong with him now benefitting from being the president's son.
The news that her only son was gay had first been hard to take for Angela. Not so much because she resented homosexuality, but because she had always dreamt of becoming a grandmother one day. Sure, Sam's children were like grandchildren to her, and Marie and Nicky called her 'Nana', but still, she had pictured Jonathan to be a family father one day with a bunch of kids sitting around the dinner table. But she loved him more than anything and only wished for his happiness. So after a short period of getting used to the new circumstances, she had accepted them and their relationship was as loving, honest and affectionate as it had ever been. She was happy to hear that after having plunged himself totally into the gay community of the German capital and fully enjoying his new life, Jonathan was finally in a stable relationship. He lived together with a well-educated and very likeable young German, who also worked in advertising and hopefully might be willing to come with him to America.
Angela was delighted to finally reunite the Bower-Micelli family. It was very dear to her; ever since Tony and Samantha had moved into her house in 1984. Thirty unbelievable years ago! All five of them - Tony and Samantha, as well as her mother, Jonathan and she - would again be living close to one another. Not under one roof like they used to for many years, but close enough to be able to see each other more often than just once or twice a year. Only that the family would be bigger now, with Sam's children and Jonathan's boyfriend joining them. She looked forward to family dinners with four generations at the table, to business meetings with her son, and to the golden years with her husband.
Tony and she had left behind all the difficulties and obstacles, which had kept them apart for seven long years. They were married for more than twenty years now, and happier than ever. Tony taught history and Italian culture at a private college and coached the local senior's baseball team. Angela was still very busy with her agency, working fifty hours and more a week. It was her elixir of life, and she dreaded the day she would retire.
The two of them were very happy and never ever, not even once, had one of them regretted giving up their friendship for love.